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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:16
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In <kevinbDn2Eqp.4MG@netcom.com> kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:

>This one should be unportable only if CHAR_BIT isn't guaranteed by the
>ANSI standard to be defined in limits.h.

It is guaranteed to be there (ANSI classic 2.2.4.2).

>I've even taken care of the issue of non-ASCII character sets.

ANSI also guarantees that the digits are contiguous in the character
set (and in ascending order) so '0' + digit is as portable as you can get
(ANSI classic 2.2.1).

Dan
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 20 Feb 96 22:16:48 GMT
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